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Dutch suspect locked up for alleged personal data megathefts

January 27 2023 By Paul Ducklin in Breach, data theft, Law & order, Security

Undercover Austrian "controlled data buy" leads to Amsterdam arrest and ongoing investigation. Suspect is said to steal and sell all sorts of data, including medical records.

Know your enemy! Learn how cybercrime adversaries get in…

June 7 2022 By Paul Ducklin in data theft, Phishing, Privacy, Ransomware, Security, Vulnerability

Here's how 144 recent attacks actually went down in real life. Don't let this happen to you!

Cyber Criminals Exploit Accellion FTA for Data Theft and Extortion

February 22 2021 By Daniel Pany in Andrew Moore, data theft, Genevieve Stark, Homepage Carousel, Kimberly Goody, Latest Blog Posts, Mandiant, Ransomware, Security, Threat Research, Van Ta, vulnerabilities

Starting in mid-December 2020, malicious actors that Mandiant tracks as UNC2546 exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Accellion’s legacy File Transfer Appliance (FTA) to install a newly discovered...

Cyber Criminals Exploit Accellion FTA for Data Theft and Extortion

Healthcare: Research Data and PII Continuously Targeted by Multiple Threat Actors

August 23 2019 By Daniel Pany in China, Cyber Espionage, data theft, FireEye Intelligence, healthcare, Homepage Carousel, Latest Blog Posts, Threat Research

The healthcare industry faces a range of threat groups and malicious activity. Given the critical role that healthcare plays within society and its relationship with our most...